Canada-bashing: We encourage it

The women of Canada are extremely sexually frustrated.

I visited Canada once ( the Canadian side of Niagara Falls) and bought a coke from a young lady, who when I handed her my American money actually snarled her lip at me with a mug that looked like she got hit in the back of her head with a wooden plank.

That was 20 years ago and I can still remember he snarly attitude. lol

No doubt Canadian women are sexually frustrated. No normal person having good sex could ever make a face like that, and just for a coke. lol

Wikipedia entry for Marsden (no, I didn't write it, but I should have)

Do tell? I clicked on the Wiki link you provided, Mole, and among other groaners I found this interesting reference to The Washington Times:

"Her commentaries have also been published by conservative media owned by Sun Myung Moon and his Unification Church, such as United Press International and the Washington Times."

If the above quote is a virtually perfect match for your style of political discourse, then you have given us a big fat clue as to the caliber of the references you have provided to us re Ms. Marsden. I had been planning to read the Wiki article all the way through, and then browse your other links, but there didn't seem any point to it after running across this tired old "WT = Moonie" smear that leftists are so fond of.

The Wikipedia article is indeed by a leftist. If I had written it, I would have done so differently. I would have ignored the Moonies and Bill O'Reilly but included Marsden's career as the radical leftist and feminist that she was until at least 2000. However, writing a definitive article on Rachel Marsden and her misdeeds would involve one hell of a lot of work. The Wikipedia writer does provide an almost-comprehensive list of her doings, and he (or she) did include a few links to genuine Canadian conservatives. That's why I included the Wikipedia link.

The Marsden story is an incredible one. In American terms, it's as if Anita Hill recycled herself as Ann Coulter and along the way got convicted in court of stalking Rush Limbaugh.

Sigh. Okay, fine. You convinced me, against my better judgment, to go back and read the entire Wiki article

. . . . . . . .

Dang! Shoulda listened to my better judgment.

My summary of the Wiki article:

The Case of The People versus R. Marsden seems to boil down to:

Eight years ago she was the accusing party in a classic "He-said, She-said" saga - ala Anita Hill / Clarence Thomas - the kind of scenario that inevitably ends up being impossible to get to the bottom of (so in the end the authorities of course presumed innocence and dropped charges against the accusee, as they rightly should have done).
When her boyfriend moved into another woman's bed and told R.M. he wanted nothing to do with her, she responded with: a barrage of e-mails and "vindictive and threatening" voice messages - and this was considered serious enough under Canadian law to give her a year's probation after which nothing will appear on her record.
Guilt By Association - her father was once accused of sexual harrassment.
Gloating by the Wiki author that a bunch of lefty Canadian "journalists" once ambushed her on a national TV program that they controlled.

Okay, the "ex-boyfriend" one is the only ding against her that I consider to have any merit. And I consider it a fairly mild one - when taken in the context of a sexual relationship that has just ended - as opposed to truly serious cases of "stalking" - such as when a celebrity is followed by a permanently disturbed person who's never met them.

It's too bad that the same word is applied to both types of situations. As such, the word "stalker" is often used as an unwarranted smear, because just providing the word with no context leads people to assume the worst case usage of the word.

Bottom line: I see nothing so far in her past which would make me discount in any way her well-written column.

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